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Zack Snyder might be the modern action director who would have felt most at home in the silent era.
(That line itself Martha!
would work so much better as an intertitle than as actual dialogue.)
Not unlike, well, something out of a Zack Snyder movie.
But you have to take the good with the bad.
The Snyder Cut sprawls, and it scatters, and it loses itself in storylines.
But lose all these melodramatic curlicues and oversized narrative distractions, and youd lose what makes the film special.
There, in its great, glorious bloat, lies the movies heart.
Early on, were introduced to one of our heroes, Cyborg, a.k.a.
Cut to the hospital.
Mom is dead, and a comatose Victor is about to die.
He sees her get evicted from her apartment.
He sees that she only has ten dollars in the bank.
With a simple wave of his hands, he adds $100,000 to her ATM balance.
The technology might be modern, but the sensibility here is straight out of Dickens.
(Full disclosure: I didnt hate the theatrical release ofJustice League.
The Snyder Cut restores Cyborgs storyline in all its earnest, melancholy glory.
you’re free to understand why length-concerned executives might have wanted it gone.
But its also the best stuff in the film.
In the comics world, of course, Thanos was something of a Darkseid ripoff.
(We could argue about this all day.)
Its all apparently in the comics.
I cant say that I cared for any of it.
In truth, Ive never been the worlds biggest Zack Snyder fan.
And the Snyder Cut might be the slo-mo-iest, CGI-iest entry in the mans oeuvre.
Snyder doesnt seem to have an evocative or nuanced bone in his body.
Is he having a laugh?
He might well be.
The wailing that suddenly pops up on the soundtrack whenever we see Wonder Woman certainly reaches self-parodic moments.
These are not paycheck gigs for him.
This is about as personal as it gets.
And its maybe more personal than ever.
It earns its self-importance.
